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# points — French to English

How French *points* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: points (207 601). By style: everyday 109 · literary 12 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 17 340 · legal and administrative 46 755 · UN documents 143 381.

## points

Used about 94 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 45 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 11 560 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 378 · UN documents ≈ 59 742).

- Tom a déjà marqué 30 **points**.
  Tom has scored 30 **points** already.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aperitero and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6222270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6222270) [\#6604084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6604084))

- L'émeute, il y a trente ans, était envisagée à d'autres **points** de vue encore.
  Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other **points** of view.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22825)

- Je voudrais souligner trois **points**.
  I want to make three clear **points**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1910677)

- les **points** suivants sont ajoutés:
  the following **points** are added:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4452172)

- La réduction du nombre des **points** de passage des frontières.
  a reduction in the number of border-crossing **points**.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14373598)

## items

Used about 42 796 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 974 · UN documents ≈ 41 819).

- Ces **points** de l'ordre du jour ont été discutés ensemble.
  Those agenda **items** were discussed together.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2083075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2083075) [\#2083305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2083305))

- n. modèles d’essai spécialement conçus pour le 愦灭;quot;développement愦灭;quot; des produits visés aux **points** ML4, ML6, ML9 ou ML10;
  n. Test models specially designed for the 愦灭;quot;development愦灭;quot; of **items** specified by ML4, ML6, ML9 or ML10;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4234699)

- II. Liste des **points** examinés chaque année.
  II. List of annual **items**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11347328)

- c) des **points** proposés par toute Partie contractante;
  (c) **Items** proposed by any Contracting Party;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4371214)

- **Points** 88 et 93 de la liste préliminaire A/53/50.
  **Items** 88 and 93 of the preliminary list A/53/50.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4447466)

## following

Used about 10 909 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 948 · UN documents ≈ 8 961).

- Les **points** 6 et 7 suivants sont ajoutés:
  The **following** sections 6 and 7 are added:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 614574)

- Le Gouvernement a sollicité les **points** de vue des représentants suivants de la société civile:
  The Government asked for the views of the **following** representatives of civil society:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18969444)

- À l'article 9, paragraphe 3, premier alinéa, les **points** e) et f) sont remplacés par le texte suivant:
  The first subparagraph of Article 9(3) (e) and (f) are replaced by the **following**:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1100781)

- On pourra se procurer les oblitérations premier jour aux **points** de vente temporaires suivants de l’Administration postale des États-Unis :
  5. First-day-of-issue cancellations can be obtained at the **following** temporary United States Postal Service substations:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 6647618)

- 208. Une étude de l &apos; incidence relative sur les coûts des trois méthodes de traduction utilisées au Bureau des services de conférence a fait apparaître les **points** suivants :
  A study of the relative cost implications of the three methods for translation in the Office of Conference Services revealed the **following**:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 702986)

## number

Used about 4 684 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 723 · legal and administrative ≈ 974 · UN documents ≈ 2 987). Meaning: [number in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/number/).

- La Commission approfondira l'analyse de votre résolution, mais je peux vous dire que nous travaillons déjà sur un certain nombre des **points** mentionnés.
  The Commission will go into more detail in the analysis of your resolution, although I must say that we are already working on a **number** of the issues raised.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1820649)

- La décision d'ouverture de la procédure dans l'affaire C-38/03 énonce, aux **points** 44 et suivants, plusieurs critères d’applicabilité de l'article 296 du traité.
  The opening decision in Case C 38/03 (ex NN 10/03) lists in paragraphs 44 seq. a **number** of criteria, which have to be fulfilled for the applicability of Article 296 of the EC Treaty.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 539297)

- Or plusieurs **points** de blocage se dressent tout au long de cette chaîne.
  However, a **number** of obstacles arise in this chain.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25049755)

- À cet égard, il est essentiel d'harmoniser les règlements existants car ils divergent en de nombreux **points** et ces différences ont des conséquences épouvantables pour les réfugiés.
  It is essential to harmonize the existing regulations because they differ in a **number** of ways and the differences have terrible consequences for the refugees.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1762884)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Je pense que Tom a besoin de **points** de suture.
  I think that Tom needs stitches.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by arnxy20 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7169376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7169376) [\#2465071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2465071))

- Beaucoup d'écoliers palestiniens passent par des **points** de contrôle de l'armée d'occupation pour aller à l'école.
  A lot of Palestinian students pass through the occupying army's checkpoints to get to school.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#7094518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7094518) [\#5029311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5029311))

- Quels sont ses **points** forts ?
  What are his strong suits?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#12467061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12467061) [\#10474740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10474740))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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